The Programme, in conjunction with the Irish Research Council, is very pleased to have awarded Dr. Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, Health Promotion Unit, National University of Ireland, Galway, with a Government of Ireland Collaborative Research Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences award, to carry out Adolescent Sexual Health Behaviour in Ireland: Data, Dissemination and Development.
This project sets out to systematically analyse sexual health behaviour data collected in the 2010 Irish Health Behaviours in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, which represents the first nationally representative and internationally comparable adolescent data in Ireland. The research will comprise a series of data analyses, will make analytical comparisons with other national studies of sexual health and will replicate international findings using Irish data.